"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." (Pls note: This is a comedy site and I am a comedian, so don't take anything here seriously. It's all in jest, haha. For entertainment purposes only!)
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Monday, November 10, 2014
You can't spell Democrat without the letters COMRADE
Behold as Jonathan Gruber, one of the key architects of Obamacare, explains the deceptions at the heart of the Affordable Care Act - deceptions which were necessary to overcome "the stupidity of the American voter".
This is not the first time Democrats have deceived the American people in order to pursue a major redistribution of wealth. The last time something like this happened was in the 1990s when Democrats under Bill Clinton began something called the Affordable Housing Initiative (there's that word "affordable" again). Deception was the key to the whole thing as mortgage credit was made available to those who could not afford mortgages, while the default risk was deceptively redistributed to taxpayers via Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FDIC, US Treasury, private banks, and other tentacles of the federal government. The scheme eventually blew-up in 2008 and nearly took the global banking system down with it. Oops.
Nevermind, the deceptions worked. To this day if you ask the average voter what collapsed the financial system in 2008 they will dutifully recite that it was "greedy bankers, deregulation, and George W Bush".
One thing Democrats have learned from their comrades is the power of propaganda.
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
An Election about American Exceptionalism
As I write this, the 2014 midterm election has yet to be
decided, and though predictions are as thick as molasses in January, I trust
that no outcome is assured. But
there is one thing I do know about this election and the direction of our
country, it’s just another twist in a long road leading away from American
exceptionalism.
We’ve heard a lot about “American exceptionalism” lately, but
most of it misses the point.
Barack Obama was asked if he believed in American exceptionalism early
in his presidency. “I believe in American exceptionalism,
just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the
Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism”, he replied. Subsequently he amended that view on numerous
occasions, only to reveal that he continues to completely misunderstand the
meaning of the term.
Just last week, the president stood in front of a group of healthcare workers who had recently
returned from Ebola stricken Africa.
“That’s American exceptionalism!”, the constitutional scholar informed
us, which was ironic because many of the care givers present were members of a
French organization known as Medecines Sans Frontieres, known here as Doctors Without Borders. Oops, maybe he meant
French exceptionalism.
No doubt, any
person who goes to Africa to treat Ebola patients is an exceptional human
being, but that has nothing to do with American exceptionalism. American exceptionalism refers to our
founding principles; never before in human history had a nation been formed
with the central principle being the supremacy of individual rights along with
deliberate limits on the powers of the state. It made us an
EXCEPTION among nations. And it
made us great.
But those days
are gone, and probably forever regardless of who controls the senate after this
election. We’ve been traveling
down this road for a century, in fits and starts, progressing away from American
exceptionalism and towards reversion to the mean. This is the essence of progressivism: progressing towards
average. Americans see the rest of
the world and want to emulate it because the grass is always greener,
right? Americans want "free" government healthcare like they have in other countries. They want "free" secondary education like
they have in other countries. They want a government that controls every aspect
of the economy like they have in other countries. They want a government that provides them with every want and need in
life. They want an all-powerful
government, just like they have in other countries. In other words, Americans have turned away from the idea of
being exceptional; they want to be just like all the other un-exceptional
nations. They want to be
average.
No president
has embodied this zeitgeist more than Barack Obama. He has openly denigrated the concept of limited government
as laid out in our constitution, calling it a “charter of negative
liberties”. Ummmm, yes it is from
the perspective of the all-powerful state. But from the perspective of the ultimate minority – the individual
- our exceptional form of government, with its emphasis on individual rights, amounts to an emancipation proclamation.
This is the key to this election; will voters make the final turn towards a post-exceptional America, or
will they once again turn, albeit temporarily, in the direction of American exceptionalism?
Friday, October 31, 2014
Obama's Halloween message to dogs...
Please forward to all the dog lovers you know!
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Monday, October 13, 2014
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Saturday, October 4, 2014
About that virus that ends in "a"...
Normally, when I borrow an idea I will credit the originator. In this case the originator deleted his tweet, and so shall remain anonymous. The original was somewhat more provocative than my version...
Friday, October 3, 2014
Why does Obama hate Fox News so much?
Yesterday Obama again singled out public enemy number one
in a speech at Northwestern University.
No, not ISIS, terrorists, jihadists, Ebola, Putin, or the IRS abusing
its power. No, Obama singled out
Fox News, of course, in front of a student audience. In a country with a private media, a
constitutional right to free speech, and a recent history of having government
agencies persecute the president’s political foes, how can anyone let alone an
auditorium full of young scholars tolerate that kind of abuse of power from
the chief executive? Not only did
they tolerate it they applauded.
When I was growing up I always heard about totalitarian
dictatorships and how they controlled their populations by controlling the
media. The Soviets were
particularly known for this. They
had complete control of the media and could pretty much manipulate their people
to believe whatever they wanted.
When I say media I’m not just referring to newspapers and TV news. I’m referring to all sources of
information in a society: news,
entertainment, and academia.
Which brings us to Barack Obama. You probably don’t think of Barack Obama as a dictator. He was democratically elected to be the
president of a constitutional republic after all, so he cannot be a
totalitarian dictator. But
consider this: there are two ways
a country can end up with a dictator - a leader or faction can seize totalitarian power by force, or the people
can grant totalitarian power to an individual or faction. For all intents and purposes Barack
Obama has been granted totalitarian dictatorial powers by the latter
route. In fact he is arguably the
most powerful dictator the world has ever known.
Think about it. Barack Obama is commander-in-chief of the worlds most powerful military,
and is uniquely able to wage war without congressional votes or opposition from
pacifists. He has carte blanche to selectively enforce laws, has carte
blanche to write laws, dissolves borders unilaterally, creates treaties
unilaterally, has weaponized every tentacle of the federal government to
persecute his enemies, is politically untouchable and unimpeachable, lies
to the country with impunity, his deputies have been found in contempt of congress
without repercussion, his policies have failed without repercussion. And…he has been granted almost complete
control of the media, with one BIG exception.
That one exception is Fox News. News Corporation and it’s flagship Fox News is the only large
media institution standing in the way of Barack Obama’s complete editorial
control of major media in the USA.
While there are significant opposition voices on the internet (this blog
being but a miniscule one), all of them combined pale in comparison to the
reach of ratings leader Fox News.
In Barack Obama’s world the constitutional protections of free speech,
a long history of tolerance, respect for private industry, and a disdain for
political interference all become subordinate to the Saul Alinsky tactical
imperative of winning at any cost.
Rule-of-law, the constitution, and tradition be damned, there’s a
revolution to be won, wealth to be redistributed, and a nation to be
fundamentally transformed!
Therefore Fox News must be stopped. In accordance with the Saul Alinsky
playbook Fox News must be mocked, ridiculed, disparaged, singled-out,
personalized, and vilified. Much
like the Koch brothers who rank near #40 in political contributions but are
enemy #1 in the Democrat pantheon of Alinsky targets, Fox News must be pounded
and vilified non-stop. And the
useful idiots at Northwestern laughed and applauded.
Barack Obama is arguably the most powerful dictator the
world has ever known – power willingly granted by the populace and popular media. All that stands between him and
complete totalitarian control, at least in his mind, is Fox News.
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